In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper by Širom

For fans of Natural Snow Buildings, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, bands that use homemade instruments, and the impossible aim of translating the animating spirit of nature into man-made sound, In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper by Širom uses bold folk experiments to distance us from a sociopathic society. A staggeringly diverse collection of instruments both brought in from distant cultures and invented by the band for this record give the album an entirely unexpected texture, throwing us off balance by eliminating any and all expectations. For the length of the record, we’re left face-to-face with an ensemble speaking an entirely foreign musical language, learning to find peace and strife, heartbreak and hope, celebration and despair within these abstract utterances. With the same ear which adapts to this absurd composition, we turn towards nature and use the same process to find all the same emotions there, a story baked into every moment in the wilderness that entirely breaks our concentration on the futility of modern life.